Popular Italian restaurant chain (Buca di Beppo) closes more than a dozen locations across America without warning employees as former staff members are 'disheartened'

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From the post: An Italian restaurant chain has abruptly shut 13 underperforming locations across the US. Buca di Beppo, known for its family-style dishes and vintage décor, permanently closed restaurants in California and Florida and its last remaining locations in Michigan and Pennsylvania in the last week. Former employees at some eateries, many of which have been open for over two decades, said the closure came as a shock.

Archive: https://archive.today/tMClE From the post: An Italian restaurant chain has abruptly shut 13 underperforming locations across the US. Buca di Beppo, known for its family-style dishes and vintage décor, permanently closed restaurants in California and Florida and its last remaining locations in Michigan and Pennsylvania in the last week. Former employees at some eateries, many of which have been open for over two decades, said the closure came as a shock.

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There used to be one somewhere here...I remember going to it once with a couple of friends. It wasn't anything special - there are plenty of Italian joints around the area where the owner is happy to see you and comes out and asks you how the sauce is today.

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Not my experience but I am sure that these are often franchises like most places. That can make a difference even with some mass-market junk if the owner actually cares.

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Don't get me wrong, it wasn't "bad" food, it just wasn't anything other than kind of expensive for what it was.

I don't think the one I went to has been there for some years...too many other places around here vying for business.

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I read two or three stories a week just like this. Yet, the govt keeps telling me how good the economy is doing. We are on the brink of a major downturn. I can feel it coming.

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"Everything is fine".. Yeah, it sure is, Until it is not.

Slowly and then all of a sudden. Do not trust them especially when they are telling you everything is "fine". If you are stupid you will believe them... While your grocery or fuel bill goes up by %50+ Also, do you remember when they said it was "dangerous" to "do your own research"?

Its bad for (((THEM))) for you to notice things are starting to suck, a lot.